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Rare footage of 17-year-old female pitching phenom Jackie Mitchell striking out New York #Yankees legend Babe Ruth during an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee! (April 2, 1931)

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Originally Posted by edtiques (Post 2424067)

That's very cool. Had no idea there was video. Somewhere I have a Krystal Hamburgers card of hers.

Standing ovation for the great Bob Uecker at the home opener in Milwaukee!

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Joe Medwick lays on the ground after getting hit in the head by a pitch, 1940

The one and only season for MLB’s Seattle Pilots was 55 years ago in 1969. Under manager Joe Schultz, the expansion team compiled a 64-98 record and finished last in the American League West.
Offensively, the team’s leaders were first baseman Don Mincher (25 home runs, 78 RBI), outfielder Tommy Davis (80 RBI) and infielder Tommy Harper (MLB-high 73 stolen bases). On the pitching side, Seattle’s double-digit winners were Gene Brabender (13-14 in 40 games/29 starts) and Diego Segui (12-6 with 12 saves in 66 games/eight starts).
The A.L.’s other expansion team that year -- the Kansas City Royals -- finished fourth in the West division at 69-93. Meanwhile, the expansion clubs that joined the National League in 1969 -- the Montreal Expos and San Diego Padres -- ended up with identical 52-110 marks.
Amid serious financial problems, the Pilots’ ownership group declared bankruptcy after that inaugural season and then sold the team to a group headed by Bud Selig, who moved it to Milwaukee and changed the name to the Brewers.
Seattle’s second opportunity in MLB came in 1977 when the Mariners joined the A.L. as an expansion franchise, along with the Toronto Blue Jays.

April 3, 1919 - One of the most bizarre off-the-field incidents in history takes place in Jacksonville, Florida. New York Yankees outfielder Ping Bodie competes against an ostrich named "Percy" in a spaghetti-eating contest! Bodie wins the competition when Percy passes out after its 11th plate of pasta.

Scoreboard from the last game at Crosley Field, June 24, 1970

Sicks' Stadium, Seattle, April 10, 1969 - From the very get-go, the Major League's first venture into the Northwest was an epic disaster after the league rushed the Pilots expansion team into the 1969 season. Here the night before the Pilots inaugural home opener against the Chicago White Sox, construction workers are feverishly still adding bleacher seats that would continue into the next day and after the first pitch, some fans had to wait until the third inning to get seated!
Despite the snags in getting Sick's Stadium ready, the Pilots did give their new but brief fans a 7-0 win as starter Gary Bell threw a 9-hit shutout and first baseman Don Mincher hit the first Major League home run in Seattle, his two-run blast in the third inning off Chicago's Joe Horlen gave the Pilots a 2-0 lead.
The win also improved the Pilots record to 2-1, in fact for an expansion team they played solid baseball for most of the first half of the season with a record just under the .500 mark. But as the 4th of July approached the losses started to come in bunches and pile up. They would finish their only season in Seattle with a 64-98 record and 33 games behind the first place Minnesota Twins.
And the bleachers and their win-loss record was just the tip of the iceberg on the issues that plagued the first year team in Seattle.
So the next season the franchise would move to Milwaukee and become today's Brewers and the one year debacle in the northwest was done with. Although this all reflected badly on the city of Seattle, it never should have, this was not their fault. Originally, Seattle's expansion team was not suppose to begin till the 1971 season along with the expansion Kansas City team (Royals). But an impatient politician in Missouri by the name of Stuart Symington would have none of that and insisted that the Royals start in 1969, and since the league would not let one team enter by itself they pushed an unprepared Pilots organization up two years, and chaos ensued as a result.
The only silver lining out of the 1969 Seattle Pilots season was it produced one of the great baseball books of all time called "Ball Four', written by the Pilots relief pitcher Jim Bouton.

Mickey Mantle on deck during BP

4/3/89
Ken Griffey Jr. makes his big league debut at the age of 19 and doubles off Dave Stewart in his first career at-bat.

Maury Wills with some of the bags he stole, 1960s.

21 of 23 World Champion Giants prefer Camels.

"Babe Ruth Steps From The Plate To The Microphone!" (Quaker Oats & NBC Radio Press Release - April 4, 1934)

Babe Ruth relaxing with his dog in Miami Beach, 1947.

Tony Gwynn could have came out of retirement and went 0 for his next 1,183 & he’d still be at a career .300 BA…
Pete Rose could come out of retirement and go 750 for his next 750 & Gwynn would still have a higher career BA…
Respect to Ty and all the great hitters of baseball history….

I would say Ty Cobb pre-war and Ichiro Suzuki post-war are the two best hitters ever. And I love them both!

See the young man in this picture? He was 18 years old when it was taken at the train station in Mobile, Alabama, in 1952. There is $1.50 in his pocket. In that bag by his foot are two changes of clothes. (And if his mama was anything like most other mamas in the South, probably some sandwiches and other snacks.) He was on his way to Indiana to take a job.
He was going to play baseball for the Indy Clowns of the Negro Leagues. Apparently, he was pretty good at it. A couple of years later, he was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers. He played for the Brewers for 2 seasons, then moved across town to the Braves, and later followed them to Atlanta. Eventually, he was the last Negro League player to be on a major league roster.
He still hangs around the baseball world. At the moment, he's the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. Even though the team has changed stadiums (twice) since then, his retired number, 44, still hangs on the outfield wall of the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium near where he belted a homer to break Babe Ruth's all-time record (which he held for 33 years).
Happy 85th birthday to "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron.

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Amazing image of Henry Louis Aaron!

Here is a great colorized photo of Hank Greenberg, one of my all-time favorite ballplayers. He was the first MLB player to go into the service in WW2, put up with all kinds of antisemitism, mentored Ralph Kiner and went into the Hall of Fame. Might have hit 500 homers if not for 47 months in the service.